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The Flames
2022 || Paperback || Sophie Haydock || Doubleday
Every painting tells a story, but what if the women on the canvas could talk...
Vienna, at the beginning of the 20th century, is an exhilarating social whirl, a city of ideas, of music, of groundbreaking art, lead by Gustav Klimt until the arrival of his scandalous protegee, Egon Schiele. Into this world come four women, each with their own story to tell:
ADELE: passionate, fierce, obstinate. The daughter of a bourgeois family, she rails against the strictures of her class and yearns for free...
The Lost Souls Meet Under a Full Moon
2024 || Paperback || Mizuki Tsujimura || Doubleday
Brimming with suspense and heartbreak, the million-copy Japanese magical realist mystery for fans of BEFORE THE COFFEE GETS COLD and LONELY CASTLE IN THE MIRROR
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I bring together the living and the departed. I am the Go-Between.
When Hirase, a young woman from Tokyo, arranges an appointment with the Go-Between, she doesn't expect a teenager to show up. Dressed preppy-style in a duffel coat and carrying a notebook, he invites the dead back into the real world - at least, this is ...
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The Exchange
after the Firm
2023 || Hardcover || John Grisham || Doubleday
#1 New York Times bestselling author John Grisham delivers high-flying international suspense in a stunning new legal thriller that marks the return of Mitch McDeere, the brilliant hero of The Firm.
What became of Mitch and Abby McDeere after they exposed the crimes of Memphis law firm Bendini, Lambert & Locke and fled the country? The answer is in The Exchange, the riveting sequel to The Firm, the blockbuster thriller that launched the career of America’s favorite storyteller. It is now fi...
The Blue Hour
2024 || Paperback || Paula Hawkins || Doubleday
‘Paula Hawkins is a genius’ LISA JEWELL
When a small bone at the centre of a famous sculpture is revealed to be human, three people become intimately connected by the secrets and lies that put it there.
Set on a Scottish tidal island connected to the mainland for just a few hours each day, and home to only one inhabitant, The Blue Hour asks questions of ambition, power, art and perception.
'A new Paula Hawkins novel is always a cause for celebration. Her books have all the pleasing twists...
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Why We Remember
unlocking Memory's Power to Hold on to What Matters
2024 || Paperback || Charan Ranganath || Doubleday
Memory is far more than a record of the past. In this groundbreaking tour of the mind and brain, one of the world’s top memory researchers reveals the powerful role memory plays in nearly every aspect of our lives, from recalling faces and names, to learning, decision-making, trauma and healing.
A new understanding of memory is emerging from the latest scientific research. In Why We Remember, pioneering neuroscientist and psychologist Charan Ranganath radically reframes the way we think abo...
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Four Seasons in Japan
2023 || Paperback || Nick Bradley || Doubleday
The new novel from the author of The Cat and The City.
Flo is sick of Tokyo. She is stuck in a rut, her translation work has dried up, and she's in a relationship that's run its course. That's until she stumbles upon a mysterious book left by a drunken passenger on the Tokyo Subway. She starts to read...
SOUND OF WATER
Kyo has failed his university entrance exams, split up with his girlfriend and is sent by his busy mother to a cram school in Onomichi, a small coastal town where he will stay ...
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Travelling Cat Chronicles
2022 || Paperback || Hiro Arikawa || Doubleday
RECOMMENDED BY THOUSANDS OF INTERNATIONAL READERS - the tender feelgood story of a man's journey around Japan with a streetcat. Translated by Philip Gabriel, a translator of Murakami.INCLUDES 6 EXQUISITE LINE-DRAWINGSIt's not the journey that counts, but who's at your side.Nana is on a road trip, but he is not sure where he is going. All that matters is that he can sit beside his beloved owner Satoru in the front seat of his silver van. Satoru is keen to visit three old friends from his youth...
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The Goodbye Cat
2023 || Hardcover || Hiro Arikawa || Doubleday
THE JAPANESE BESTSELLER
A PERFECT READ FOR CAT-LOVERS
Against changing seasons in Japan, seven cats weave their way through their owners' lives ...
We meet Spin, a kitten rescued from the recycling bin, whose simple needs teach an anxious father how to parent his own human baby; a colony of wild cats on a holiday island shows a young boy not to stand in nature's way; a family is perplexed by their cat's devotion to their charismatic but uncaring father; a woman curses how her cat constantly v...
Freakslaw
2024 || Hardcover || Jane Flett || Doubleday
Discover the dazzling new queer literary horror novel about chosen family and the risks it takes to become the person you want to be.
‘The glittery punk offspring of Katherine Dunn’s Geek Love and Angela Carter’s Nights at the Circus.’ Chelsea G. Summers, author of A Certain Hunger
A travelling funfair of seductive troublemakers arrive in a repressed Scottish town. What could possibly go wrong?
It’s the summer of ’97 and the Scottish town of Pitlaw is itching for change.
Enter the...